STEPHANIE YAO  Director of Photography, Inthefray.com

Stephanie Yao is a staff photographer at The Oregonian in Portland. She relocated to the lush Pacific Northwest three years ago from her dry, dusty birthplace of Albuquerque. Egg rolls and enchiladas, lion dances and luminarias: these sum up the life of a Chinese-New Mexican. By the time Stephanie graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (and a minor in journalism), she had mastered the spelling of her hometown and was hopelessly addicted to green chile. After work at the Albuquerque Journal and The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Stephanie heeded the call to go farther west. For the last three years she has taught and mentored high school students at a minority journalism workshop at the University of Oregon. This year she was the photo editor for Voices, the student newspaper devoted to covering the national convention of the Asian American Journalists Association. She recently began volunteering for the newsletter of the Wallace Medical Concern, a local agency that offers medical treatment for people without health insurance.

E-mail
  stephanie.yao@inthefray.com

Index
  Wear your heart on your short-sleeve
  Written by Jia-Rui Chong | Photo collage by Stephanie Yao | Imagine | April 9, 2001

  Correspondence
  Written by Siobhan Peiffer | Photo by Stephanie Yao | Imagine | June 11, 2001
  A poem

Last updated: June 11, 2001